History ComicBook / Finder

* SelfHarm: Jaeger has to resort to this sometimes if he doesn't get accidentally hurt or deliberately injured by someone else, because his healing factor turns on him and gives him auto-immune problems if it has nothing to do for too long. This is played for combination black humour and {{Squick}}.

* NoPronunciationGuide: is the ll in Llaverac pronounced as the Spanish or the Welsh version?

* ThemedTattoos: The tattoo which marks a person as a member of the Finder society, a barred stripe around some part of the body with a line of dots parallel to it. Jaeger's is around his hand and has to be frequently redone as his HealingFactor causes it to decay. Rachel's is around her neck.

* PowerTattoo: Jaeger's Finder tattoo, which doesn't have inherent power, but which marks him as a member of the Finder society and has to be frequently redone as his HealingFactor causes it to decay.

** "Chase the Lady" is implied to take place after the cliffhanger ending of "Third World", and we don't find out how Jaeger got out of his bad situation at that point, except that there is now something weird about his right eye.

* NoodleIncident: However Jaeger annoyed Brom enough for Brom to nearly beat him to death.

* OneGenderRace: Almost. Thanks to genetic engineering, all Llaverac, regardless of actual gender, ''look'' like women.

* ShoutOut: Many, often referred to in the notes. A possible one not acknowledged is that the bookseller who Jaeger buys Marcie's gift from at the beginning of "Talisman" looks a great deal like the horror writer and critic Creator/KimNewman.

Think of it as SliceOfLife [[LifeEmbellished Embellished]], with the embellishment cranked UpToEleven, then taught to play nice and not upstage SliceOfLife. The stories are focused on (or at least tangentially related to) Jaeger, a member of the title order of Finders.

* BecomingTheMask: Sort of; Jaeger was originally partially protecting the Grosvenor family from Brigham and partially providing Brigham with information about them. This eventually shifted to Jaeger entirely protecting the Grosvenor family.

* ''Torch'': Partially published online, then abandoned: the installments were [[CanonDiscontinuity later deleted]].

* MixedAncestry: Jaeger, Rachel, Lynne, and Marcie, all of whom socially suffer for it; only Rachel can pass for one side or the other. (This turns out to be because [[spoiler: she's actually entirely Llaverac]].)

Has nothing to do with ''Series/TheFinder'' tv series.

[[http://www.darkhorse.com/Search/finder Dark Horse]] have recently begun publishing Finder, releasing the bulk of the existing stories as two omnibus 'Library' volumes.

* ''Chase the Lady'': Also from ''Dark Horse Presents''. Rachel discovers that becoming Llaverac aristocracy just means more financial worries and public pressures. And then there's the Ascian community that she's somehow become the public protector of, and the very real physical and spiritual dangers of her increasingly deep involvement in their UsefulNotes/{{Vodoun}}-style religion.

* ArtificialZombie: Inverted, the zombies are still alive but they still go about scuffling along in packs. This is because they're ''office workers''; they have a chip in their brain that let's them do all their work on the internet while their bodies are sent out shambling to get more exercise.

* ArtificalZombie: Inverted, the zombies are still alive but they still go about scuffling along in packs. This is because they're ''office workers''; they have a chip in their brain that let's them do all their work on the internet while their bodies are sent out shambling to get more exercise.